🙌 Showing employees empathy helps them develop a stable base at work, so they can feel comfortable exploring and taking risks. This can lead to more creativity and better problem-solving within your team.⁠ The part of our brains that focuses on goals inhibits the part that helps us to understand and empathize with others.⁠ ⁠ Making employees feel heard and understood can improve their physical health as well as their mental well-being: Workers who feel unfairly criticized, or whose boss will not listen to their problems, have a rate of coronary heart disease 30 percent higher than those who feel treated fairly.⁠ ⁠ Simply listening to your employees helps them to offload their negative feelings and release tension. Carrying around anxiety or frustration can hinder an employee’s performance, so try to tap into how they’re feeling regularly. In a survey of employees at seven hundred companies, the majority said that a caring boss was more important to them than how much they earned.⁠ ⁠ _...